After mating, a male wasp begins to dig out of the fig, creating a tunnel for the females to escape through.

The male wasp, therefore, clearly knows what shape and colour to look out for.

The male wasp's aggressive behavior is similar to that of another robust insect of the area, the male carpenter bee.

After several weeks' development in their galls, the male wasps emerge before the females.

Which in turn brings the male wasp's thorax in contact with the sticky pollen packet.

The male wasp will become tired of trying and fly off.

Once out of the fig, the male wasps quickly die.

Male organ pipe mud daubers are among the few male wasps of any species to stay at the nest.